tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post7643300320004294093..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: I'm not making this upUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73846795303427576342008-07-02T16:27:00.000-07:002008-07-02T16:27:00.000-07:00This is the view of most native born americans,The...<I>This is the view of most native born americans,</I><BR/><BR/>Then said "native born americans" are rather confused about the definition of "citizen". <BR/><BR/>Udolpho: By definition, anyone who works in a service job is not a "peasant". <BR/><BR/>I have dealt with Mexicans, though. Never had any problems with them being "surly".Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03225011724349777456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47132229254608890492008-07-02T07:45:00.000-07:002008-07-02T07:45:00.000-07:00"Lucille said...I would think even the most dedica..."Lucille said...<BR/><BR/>I would think even the most dedicated anti-immigration proponents realize that the majority of Latinos in the US are native-born."<BR/><BR/>Native born, maybe. Citizens of this nation, never. If they are considered so, it is only because of the insane interperetation of the 14th amendment which now governs our immigration law. As far as I am concerned, any child of an illegal alien is himself an illegal alien. <BR/><BR/>This is the view of most native born americans, and may once again hold the force of law when either 1.) the supreme court reverses itself, 2.) An amendment is passed that supercedes the current interperetation, or 3.) People in this country take matters into their own hands and wrest control of our future from lawyers and judges.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84452284620177181882008-07-01T19:14:00.000-07:002008-07-01T19:14:00.000-07:00Is it just mu region where the term "diverse" has ...Is it just mu region where the term "diverse" has become a euphemism for "unsafe?" <BR/><BR/>Do you feel safe walking around your neighborhood at night?<BR/><BR/>Well, it's kind of a <I>diverse</I> neighborhood....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25232209726475066852008-07-01T15:56:00.000-07:002008-07-01T15:56:00.000-07:00Thanks to Rod Dreher for identifying the author of...Thanks to Rod Dreher for identifying the author of the piece. <BR/>I was becoming more and more convinced that Steve Sailer had started working undercover for Dallas Morning News.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43559841852361963452008-07-01T14:58:00.000-07:002008-07-01T14:58:00.000-07:00I wasn't asked to write my opinion, but assigned t...<I>I wasn't asked to write my opinion, but assigned to write the collective opinion of the editorial board</I><BR/><BR/>Maybe warning labels should precede all such pieces, with words to the effect of your quote.<BR/><BR/>I mean, I'd like to have something like that in hand if I was in your slippers, facing a torch- and pitchfork-wielding mob some dark and stormy night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16988305509236530652008-07-01T14:49:00.000-07:002008-07-01T14:49:00.000-07:00And don't criticize gays. They are usually the van...<I>And don't criticize gays. They are usually the vanguard of gentrification, since they could give a damn about the marginal public schools.</I><BR/><BR/>Damn, I never thought of that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15898214331514048522008-07-01T09:51:00.000-07:002008-07-01T09:51:00.000-07:00Technically only US citizens should be voting Mr. ...<I>Technically only US citizens should be voting Mr. Davenport.</I><BR/><BR/>I would think even the most dedicated anti-immigration proponents realize that the majority of Latinos in the US are native-born.Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03225011724349777456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82229670214359306202008-07-01T07:17:00.000-07:002008-07-01T07:17:00.000-07:00Anon sed:"Democracy is a necessary precursor for s...Anon sed:<BR/>"Democracy is a necessary precursor for socialism."<BR/><BR/>Yea, the latest "democratic" election was in Zimbabwe. Mugabe gunned down the opposition, shut down the country with his army and forced the opposition to resign. After the vote he is being criticized but still treated as a valid "head of state". What a joke. I just lost the meaning of that word "democracy". When the flipping NYT and other MSM papers write about the word with the usual thumb-sucking mindlessness I wonder what they mean? Is it like cookies, or toilet paper...?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39235259496361528102008-07-01T06:19:00.000-07:002008-07-01T06:19:00.000-07:00The editorial, I learned yesterday, was written by...The editorial, I learned yesterday, was written by my colleague Bill McKenzie, a middle-aged white fellow, a liberal Presbyterian, and a good guy (though I disagree with him about a lot of things). He lives south of the Trinity river, close to some of the neighborhoods he's writing about here.<BR/><BR/>I appreciate the commenter's observation about the illegal immigrant "Texan of the Year" essay I wrote. For one, I wrote it not in my own voice, but in the voice of the editorial board. My job, like any editorial writer's, was to reflect the board's opinion, not my own. The essay was widely read as a paean to illegal immigration, which it was not at all intended to be -- and I am puzzled that this was the reaction. Rather, like the commentator says, it was intended to be as much a warning as anything. Their are some on the board who think all this immigration is on balance a good thing, and some (like me) who adopt a more Saileran approach. We all agreed, though, that in 2007, the illegal immigrant was a Very Big Deal in Texas -- for better or for worse. That was the approach I took in writing the piece. I think if you go back and read it closely, you'll see that there's as much in that essay warning of the problems with illegal immigration as there is talking about the benefits of illegal immigration (of which I'm skeptical, but like I said, I wasn't asked to write my opinion, but assigned to write the collective opinion of the editorial board).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66066824545684072882008-07-01T02:37:00.000-07:002008-07-01T02:37:00.000-07:00Dear one millionth anonymous,Thank you for the mea...Dear one millionth anonymous,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for the measured and insightful critique. I now see my comments, and the issues to which they relate, in an entirely new and different light.<BR/><BR/>By the way, does the word "irony" ring any bells in there?<BR/><BR/>I guess if you have to explain the joke . . . .Black Seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347464061061628147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27936916509171055912008-07-01T01:12:00.000-07:002008-07-01T01:12:00.000-07:00The biggest mistake Americans ever made was granti...The biggest mistake Americans ever made was granting citizenship to immigrants, or at least to the diverse variety of immigrant. The diveristocracy is so thoroughly uninterested in America, the historic nation, or America the 'Big Idea,' that if they hadn't been given citizenship they would have been happy to just remain in the country and carve out livelihoods for themselves. This is essentially what happens when westerners go off to live in countries like Thailand. They don't imagine for a minute that they'll have a say in the running of the country. They're just happy to be there. Thais are happy to take their money so they don't mind if the foreigners never learn their language. The foreigners don't bother the Thais -- they don't beat, rob or taunt them -- so the Thais don't mind their presence. If America [i]absolutely had to have[/i] diversity, this model is obviously far superior to the nuttiness now envoloping the country.<BR/><BR/>As for the article, there's no need to read too deeply into. It's the kind of drivel liberals always produce to quell their own anxieties. As commentors have pointed out, essentially you take what has every appearance of being very, very bad, and breezily turn it around so that it seems very, very good; intractable differences become growing pains, the ominous becomes promising, the drab becomes gritty etc. After all, the liberal stares at you dumbfounded that you'd ask, the diversity is here now, what choice [i]is[/i] their but to pretend to enjoy it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37081038589713917102008-07-01T00:37:00.000-07:002008-07-01T00:37:00.000-07:00Josh:Fred Reed expresses it "brethren and cistern....Josh:<BR/><BR/>Fred Reed expresses it "brethren and cistern."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37077588747763038592008-06-30T23:35:00.000-07:002008-06-30T23:35:00.000-07:00Black Sea said... The trick in Iraq is convincing ...Black Sea said... <BR/><BR/><I>The trick in Iraq is convincing the population to lay down their weapons and comply with the rule of law under a stable, democratic regime.</I><BR/><BR/>Actually your "trick" is totally un-American. <BR/><BR/>It is not coherent that we would tell any civilian population on the planet to disarm. I thought we were exporting our values? <BR/><BR/>And there is no such thing as a "stable, democratic regime." The American Founders warned against democracy for good reason. <BR/><BR/>The word "democracy" doesn't appear in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. Franklin D. Roosevelt actually talked up the Republic in his public addresses. Fat chance of that happening today. <BR/><BR/>Today we have the "conservative" GW Bush extolling Wilsonian Make-the-World-Safe-for-Democracy rhetoric. Democracy sucks. Democracy is a necessary precursor for socialism.<BR/><BR/>This leads to braindead democracy uber alles comments like those of "black sea" even on dissident websites. <BR/><BR/>The Left has won. Not only this nation, but the entire world has been intellectually lobotomized and disconnected from historical facts that might lead them to the light today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87280807112373429572008-06-30T19:54:00.000-07:002008-06-30T19:54:00.000-07:00re: "Can a vibron be expressed in terms of diversi...re: "Can a vibron be expressed in terms of diversicles and vice versa?"<BR/><BR/>This deserves further study. Perhaps we can build a Diversity Superconducting Supercollider. I propose we accelerate Obama to 99% the speed of light and crash him into some Mexicans to see what flies off. <BR/><BR/>Of course there are dangers: the accidental production of black holes, dark matter, and such.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28658985054773411752008-06-30T19:06:00.000-07:002008-06-30T19:06:00.000-07:00I suppose that Southern California is your Large V...I suppose that Southern California is your Large Vibron Collider?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75215348119917238472008-06-30T18:58:00.000-07:002008-06-30T18:58:00.000-07:00@ anon: I like "diversicle". Clearly D = m V^2.@ anon: I like "diversicle". Clearly <BR/>D = m V^2.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51187807939402525362008-06-30T18:44:00.000-07:002008-06-30T18:44:00.000-07:00"David Davenport said... You can't imagine what it..."David Davenport said... <BR/>You can't imagine what it's like being waited on by surly, dumb-as-rocks Mexican peasants.<BR/><BR/>Your fellow voters, their numbers rapidly increasing."<BR/><BR/>Technically only US citizens should be voting Mr. Davenport.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22613880032875707012008-06-30T18:41:00.000-07:002008-06-30T18:41:00.000-07:00Hey, Susanna's wrong. Whole blocks of crappy, "mi...Hey, Susanna's wrong. Whole blocks of crappy, "migrant" apartments in the 'Cliff have been leveled courtesy of Phil Romano, demi-billionaire founder of Macaroni Grill and a host of other restaurants. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/industries/commrealestate/stories/053108dnbuswestdallas.3ce4cd8.html<BR/><BR/>Steve Sailer can relate.<BR/><BR/>It's being gentrified. <BR/><BR/>In other words: It's come full circle, since the 'Cliff used to be majority white. It's where Stevie Ray Vaughan and his brother are from. They attended Kimball High. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Ray_Vaughan<BR/><BR/>And don't criticize gays. They are usually the vanguard of gentrification, since they could give a damn about the marginal public schools. <BR/><BR/>With gas at $4 a gallon, and probably going higher, more such redevelopment will occur in inner cities. That's why inner city D.C. is changing so quickly.<BR/><BR/>The same thing happened a few years ago to my Old East Dallas neighorhood. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/081007dnbuseastside.35a6aa0.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88463987237126804982008-06-30T18:27:00.000-07:002008-06-30T18:27:00.000-07:00Dearieme - Love the vibron concept.Which leads to ...Dearieme - Love the vibron concept.<BR/><BR/>Which leads to the inevitable question. How do we measure diversity, what is <I>its</I> fundamental unit?<BR/><BR/>Divon, diversiton, diversicle?<BR/><BR/>Is there a unified theory that marries the two concepts.<BR/><BR/>Can a vibron be expressed in terms of diversicles and vice versa?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-9076285944152240002008-06-30T16:01:00.000-07:002008-06-30T16:01:00.000-07:00Wonder where the writer of this piece actually liv...Wonder where the writer of this piece actually lives, or if he goes out much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45691469997119711702008-06-30T14:58:00.000-07:002008-06-30T14:58:00.000-07:00I didn't write this. I was on vacation last week w...I didn't write this. I was on vacation last week when it was written. Had I been in the office, I would not only have opposed the editorial, I would have warned that "vibrant" and its iterations is not the word to use.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26668705072735431452008-06-30T14:39:00.000-07:002008-06-30T14:39:00.000-07:00This is beautiful:"Vibrancy is what happens when w...This is beautiful:<BR/>"Vibrancy is what happens when white-collar professionals and blue-collar laborers sit shoulder-to-shoulder at restaurants like the Charco Broiler, Tops Cafe and El Ranchito."<BR/>ergo, evidently vibrancy = one person thinking 'I wish you'd disappear' and the other thinking 'I'd like to rob your house.'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43123929060590347102008-06-30T13:42:00.000-07:002008-06-30T13:42:00.000-07:00What's the unit of vibrancy? The vibron, I suppos...What's the unit of vibrancy? The vibron, I suppose. W contributes a microvibron, John Kerry a millivibron, but Senator Pajama a whole kilovibron.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24085079734989712862008-06-30T11:14:00.000-07:002008-06-30T11:14:00.000-07:00When people talk to me about "vibrant" immigrant c...When people talk to me about "vibrant" immigrant communities, what I say is that I live in New York City, I've seen these neighborhoods, and you know what? For the most part they are really boring!<BR/><BR/>"There's a bodega. There's another bodega. There's a hair solon. Oh look, another bodega!"<BR/><BR/>I've found that when I put it this way people tend to sputter and change the subject. :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-92045491805723158292008-06-30T10:54:00.000-07:002008-06-30T10:54:00.000-07:00as a resident in metropolitan DFW area. I can hone...as a resident in metropolitan DFW area. I can honestly tell you that whenever u drive by Oak Cliff, keep on driving by.....unless u want some real bad shit to happen to you for no reason.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com